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This title is squarely situated at the intersection of literature and psychology. Psychologists' dicoveries about when childhood memories form, and what form they most often take, resonate throughout the works of the three writers Martens highlights.
Readers once believed in Proust's madeleine and in Wordsworth's recollections of his boyhood--but that was before literary culture began to defer to Freud's questioning of adult memories of childhood. In this first sustained look at childhood memories as depicted in literature, …